Mumsnet to be sold

[Mikehunt2018]

Or at least partially. There's no mention of it on Site Stuff but Sky reported it yesterday.

https://news.sky.com/story/mumsnet-founder-roberts-plots-delivery-of-new-owner-13501362

(oh and Mike isn't my name. It's a play on words)

I see one poster changed it to "mass exodus".
Bit better.

I had wondered before, elsewhere, if people say things as wishful thinking.
In this instance they wish X was dead, and so project their thoughts.

At least one of the investors is US-backed, so I can’t wait for the all posters who are boycotting US-owned goods and services to bore off the forum 🥳🥳🥳

Nice to meet you.

This happened to an Irish forum some years ago and there was a 'massexodus' to another smaller site which at one point once it became very popular was to be sold but the owner decided to lock it down to private instead for some reason. Maybe there was not the financial investment to bother selling but the site is still going now just not too well known. The other site being sold prompted the move and no idea why as that site died a death itself not long afterwards.
Dont think I would want to keep a site forever myself so Justine obviously has her reasons for selling but I cannot imagine it will be any better for users in the long term. Maybe forums as a whole are dying out.

Does anyone remember Damsels?

I do. I wasn't a member but used to read the boards. I was a 'bagger' from Handbag. 😂There were some characters on those boards and lot of laughs. [tattooee ring any bells? 😃]

So all of this is reminiscent of when Handbag went to shit.

God yeah, Handbag! That’s a blast from the past. What or who was Tattooee? I remember a girl who got her son’s name tattooed on her and it was spelt incorrectly and it made the papers. She took it in good grace to be fair!

That's who I meant. Yes she was a good laugh and good natured about it all. It spread over three or four boards at the time. 😅

ETA: It was she who misspelled 'tattoo'

Got you. Yeah agreed she was a good sport about it all.

Nice for them to let their users know, are we boycotting?

Me too! Style &. Beauty board mostly.

Why would they let users know when Justine's made her disdain for them clear on a number of occasions, including the infamous one where it was said the content producers were piggybacking on those prepared to pay for the Premium version?

Was about time

I used to read the Daily Mail many many moons ago...not for its politics just for the gossip and crossword. ( Now, i wouldnt use it to start a fire nor go online to Femail if my life depended on it) When 'the mail' started to go online to -Femail' ...there was the Charlotte Street /femail forums which were along the same structure and themes as mumsnet. Because of the similarities anyone know if the Femail forums site and Mumsnet were interlinked by originators, backers?? Just curious.

“Freeloaders”

Haha. You don't remember the Moldies row, and the Christmas of a Thousand Burnt Turkeys then.

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@Mikehunt2018 I went to college with a Mike Hunt 😁 Very good looking lad but a bit of a shagger 🙄

I hope not! They way people use the laugh reaction to passively aggressively mock people is just vicious and unkind.

I deleted my original account here.

I use a separate browser for Mumsnet so any parasites (cookies) I pick up are contained but I see no adverts at all as it happens. The built in privacy features which I activated to the max seem to work well.

What happened last year?

I wouldn't be interested if it went jnternational, might as well go to reddit.

First FIFA and now MN. Everything just gets ‘bigger’ and somehow worse.

A number of appalling incidences of child abuse images being posted. It went on over a number of days if I recall.

I'm surprised you don't remember, if you were around then. They had to suspend all image posting for a while.

I was one of the first people to report the images (to the poor shocked nightwatch mod, and thank goodness I knew to do that.) In fairness I didn’t realise that this incident is what was being referred to by this post.